
john_cope
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- Framing the picture


- Outfit / fashion / other gimmicks
Fashion. Try to look good but don't try too hard. The focus is not on your clothes but your face (and to a lesser extent your height and frame) Avoid looking like a bum. Even people who thugmax don't want to look like a bum. You don't have to wear a fedora though. Also, show your eyes. Do not wear sunglasses in your most important pictures. Eyes are extremely important.
Gimmicks. You can appeal to primitive human evolutionary biases. Holding a Starbucks coffee appeals to people's innate hoarding behavior (and also associates you with something they like - coffee/sugar etc...). If you take a photo indoors make sure it's not claustrophobic - don't take pics on the staircase or bathroom. Taking pictures at public sculptures (why do you think girls take so many pictures at 'the bean' in Chicago? or at the Eiffel tower in France?) is an easy way for statusmaxing. Also, do you know how many times people take pictures of themselves with flowers or other pretty objects? See the picture of Marlon Teixeira below -

This is basically an example of sexual selection. In peacocks, their bright feathers and patterns appeal to potential mates. It shows fertility. When you take pictures with bright, pretty objects, you are basically associating yourself with fertility and sex. Why else do you think the female genitalia is often referred to (as much as I hate the anology) as a 'flower' or a 'rose' or a 'cherry'?
- Morphing / filters / editing
I am not here to debate if you find her attractive or not (although IMO she is) but she takes such good photos, and morphs them so well that it's hard to tell. I actually compared a photo she posted twice by accident. She morphed one a bit more than the other which was the only way I realized she had been editing all her pics. Specifically she was making her eyes larger, her nose and face in general a bit narrower. She was easily adding a full point on the rating scale just by editing her pics, and I looked at her youtube channel she definitely looked different in motion, but not enough that somebody might call her out as a fraud. You should basically do the same.

Her morphed instagram picture compared to her youtube videos. Pretty drastic difference.
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